Payload
TURKSAT-3USAT
NonoperationalPayloadLEO
TURKSAT-3USAT is a Turkey payload satellite, launched on April 26, 2013 into LEO.
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Launch
- Launch date
- April 26, 2013 at 04:13 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Jiuquan, China
- Launched by
- Long March 2D →
- Operator
- China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 587 km
- Periapsis
- 569 km
- Inclination
- 97.79°
- Orbital period
- 96.23 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- Turkey
- Launch mass
- 6 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2013-018C
- NORAD catalog №
- 39152
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
Turkey- Radar cross-section
- 0.109 m²
- Status
- Nonoperational
End of mission
- Fate
- No longer operational — remains in orbit as inactive.
- Final status
- Nonoperational
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